Idris Muhammad plays a hip train beat on George Benson’s cover of a Monkees hit, Last Train To Clarkesville, from his 1968 album Shape Of Things To Come. He’s playing rim clicks with a stick […]
Month: July 2022
Sidebar: Shopping in the YouTube age
Continuing a particular aspect of that why I hate videos post: information paralysis. It hits me whenever I have to buy camera equipment, or electronics, or computer related products. It’s always a manic descent into the […]
Art Blakey – The Core
Here’s something great that deserves much better than the cursory treatment I’m about to give it: The Core, from Art Blakey’s record Free For All. Blakey’s doing a little bit of an Elvin Jones thing […]
Funky Primer p. 22 converted to sixtuplet funk
In a lesson the other day I realized I don’t really like any of the sixtuplet funk materials in my regular books. Joel Rothman’s are pretty good, Funky Primer are pretty not good, Jim Payne’s […]
Paradiddle inversion control – 01
A sketchpad for my own practicing— a set of velocity studies using one paradiddle inversion in particular, the massively fun and useful RLLR-LRRL form. In case you’re listening to all that Antonio Sanchez and thinking […]
Alejian cymbals
I made an interesting purchase at that Chehalis, Washington drummer swap meet— an 18″ Alejian brand cymbal. At 1368 grams, it would be categorized as approximately a medium thin crash, maybe a crash-ride— it acts […]
SOME NEW(ISH) MUSIC: Antonio Sanchez – Three Times Three
Hey, I should make some kind of effort to hear some new music. I’m in danger of being a total dinosaur, only listening to decades-old music, and not knowing anything happening this century, let alone […]
Percussion swap meet in Chehalis, WA tomorrow
If any of you are in… whatever you call that part of Washington state— the I-5 corridor between Olympia and Longview… there’s going to be a drummer swap meet/gathering tomorrow, Sunday, July 17th, at Alexander […]
Germany/Istanbul tour wrap up
I returned from Germany a few days ago, and am still quite loopy with jet lag. I took as many Cymbal & Gong cymbals as my wife and I could carry, and had a couple […]